* Derive message DOM ids from the server id, not client_message_id
A message's DOM id was derived from the browser-chosen client_message_id
via a Message#to_key override, so dom_id(message) was
"message_<client_message_id>". Turbo's append de-dups by DOM id, so a room
member who posted a message reusing a victim's client_message_id displaced
the victim's message element in every connected member's live view; editing
the attacker's own message then broadcast onto the victim's presentation id.
Drop the to_key override so every message DOM id and broadcast target derives
from the record's primary key. Two distinct records can no longer share a DOM
id regardless of stored client_message_id, so the collision is impossible with
no data migration and no uniqueness constraint. to_param and the fragment
cache key already used the primary key, so message URLs and per-message cache
entries are unchanged.
The composer's optimistic pending message still uses client_message_id as its
placeholder DOM id, which no longer matches the server broadcast's PK-based id.
Reconcile instead by rendering data-client-message-id on the real message and
having the messages controller drop the matching pending placeholder on
connect. Only client-side placeholders (data-pending-message) are removed, so a
message another member posts reusing the same client_message_id can never
displace a real one through the reconciliation path either.
Also point the boost broadcast target at the PK-based dom_id(message, :boosts)
to match the rebuilt container id.
GHSA-3v99-4vxh-xg84
* Bust cached message fragments rendered with client_message_id DOM ids
The message fragment cache keys on the record and the template digest, and
removing the to_key override changes neither. Fragments cached by an earlier
release would keep their message_<client_message_id> ids, so edit, delete and
boost broadcasts, which now target primary-key ids, would miss those messages
in other members' live views until the cache entry expired.
* Locate messages by record id in the client_message_id collision tests
Assert on data-message-id rather than the new primary-key DOM ids, so the tests
describe the behavior instead of the fix and fail on the vulnerable code for the
real reason. Edit the attacker's message to new text and wait for it to arrive,
so the edit path is exercised rather than passing vacuously. Add a request test
that two messages sharing a client_message_id render as distinct elements.
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Co-authored-by: Jeremy Daer <jeremy@37signals.com>
Files are posted as a message's own attachment, and the composer puts none in the rich text: it permits
only mentions and link embeds. The server still keeps any attachment whose signed id resolves, a blob
included, and Action Text's blob partial links to a representation URL that makes the preview on the
first request, without the limits the POST has, and on every request while it fails.
The app's own partial shows an image's preview only if it was already made, and otherwise the file's
name and size, as it does for a file that isn't an image. The cached presentation's version goes up,
since Action Text renders the partial by name and the template digest doesn't see it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Bj8KnxpTf9sj2Ysa8aLAVa
A video's preview and a picture's thumbnail are made inside the request that posts the message, and
nothing bounded how long either could take.
- The video preview filter also selects any frame from 5 seconds on. Rails' filter takes the second
frame it selects, which a video with a single keyframe and no scene change only gives at its end, so
ffmpeg decoded all of it.
- TimeLimitedVideoPreviewer gives ffmpeg 10 seconds of wall-clock time, kills it past that, and reports
a failed preview, so the message is posted without one.
- Pictures and videos above 250 megapixels, or whose size couldn't be read, get no preview: decoding
costs in proportion to the pixels, however small the file.
- The view shows a preview only if it was made when the message was posted. Its URL used to make it on
view, so a preview that failed or was skipped would be attempted again on every view. The cached
presentation's version goes up, so cached messages pick this up.
- A video's poster is made, when the message is posted, at the size the view shows it. The full-size WebP
made until now wasn't shown anywhere, and encoding it costs in proportion to the frame's pixels.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Bj8KnxpTf9sj2Ysa8aLAVa
Pages of messages load them with_presentation, which preloads each
message's boosts with their boosters and avatars, but the boosts partial
asked for message.boosts.ordered: a new query for every message, and the
preloaded boosts went unused. Sort the preloaded boosts in Ruby. The
boosts frame, whose message comes without them, still queries them in
order with their boosters.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0142qgjggdJ2KDdGk7RF9Xm9
Every boost had its own fragment, nested inside the message fragment that
already holds it. With a cold cache, a read and a write per boost plus a
read_multi and a write_multi per message: a room page of 40 messages with
120 boosts takes ~410 ms instead of ~290 ms. Redis runs without persistence
(config/redis.conf), so every page is cold after a restart.
A boost touches its message, so adding or removing one rewrites the message
fragment anyway. The inner fragments only paid off when a message with many
boosts was drawn again, and there they hid a lookup per booster. The boosters
are now loaded with the boosts, one query per message.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0142qgjggdJ2KDdGk7RF9Xm9
link_to passed `action: "soft-keyboard#open"` as a plain option, so it
rendered as an `action` attribute, which Stimulus never reads. The link
in messages/_actions.html.erb already passes it under `data:`; this one
now does too, so tapping "Add a boost" on a touch device opens the
keyboard for the boost form as the menu's link does.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The room caches each message's rendered presentation, and its key can't
see the link preview partial, which ActionText renders by name rather than
through a render call the digestor can follow. Without a new version, a
message already in the cache would keep its old preview.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0186eyzivcTn6wqjEE4Wnxdt
- Use jbuilder instead of hashes
- Use resource instead of direct HTTP verbs
Verbs only make sense if you have one or two routes, if there are
multiple that emulate what resource does then it's better to use resource.
- Paginate using link headers
- Cache responses
* Bump thruster 0.1.15 → 0.1.23
* Scrub disallowed attributes on allowed tags in message rendering
SanitizeTags removes disallowed tags from message presentation, but
attributes on the tags it allows passed through untouched. Extend the
content-filter chain with a SanitizeAttributes filter that runs Rails'
safe-list sanitizer over the remaining markup, stripping event-handler
attributes and unsafe URI schemes as defense-in-depth alongside the
existing Content-Security-Policy.
Running it after SanitizeTags with the same allowed-tags list makes the
sanitizer's tag pass a no-op, preserving SanitizeTags' remove-not-unwrap
semantics while scrubbing attributes. The attribute allowlist is the
standard ActionText set (which keeps attachments intact) plus class,
which presentation styling relies on.
GPT on behalf of DHH
Donal McBreen
Marcello Costagliola
Sam Ruby
Stanko K.R.
Rosa Gutierrez
Jeremy Daer
Ibraheem Tuffaha
Kevin McConnell